And the President actually dug himself in a bit deeper with the resulting press conference. Maybe I’m just being a weary cynical partisan about this, but the man’s continuing ‘surprise’ over every bad thing that ever happens grates on me. Listening to him, you’d never know that Barack Obama campaigned on the Veterans Affairs issue…
Moe Lane
PS: On a more general note? Don’t appoint antiwar partisans to important positions. As Eric Shinseki just demonstrated, they’ll only screw it all up.
Was he slated to retire in the coming months anyways? It would fit this administration’s track record.
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I’m guessing the White House will act from now on as though this were old news or the situation has been dealt with, when it hasn’t.
My spin is that now Dems admit, at least once, that this is not a phony scandal.
Most of the population doesn’t know, and never will.
Given that the resignation was not followed with his arrest and his forced appearance in front of Congress to explain his malicious level of incompetence, I’m not entirely happy about this. But at least he’s gone.
I think the administration is just going to use this as a way to stonewall any investigation into the VA’s behavior…
Oh absolutely. “See?! We did something! Why are you still asking all these icky questions?”
In other news, Jay Carney is apparently leaving too.
ObamaBus HUNGERS!
I was wrong.
But to be fair (to me) it is not like the Obama administration has a culture of addressing the incompetents within its ranks.
Good heavens! What if Obama starts firing all the incompetents! Our Executive branch will be completely depopulated! Who will sit around and surf for porn at work while waiting for retirement then?